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A |     谢士炎持枪闯门那晚，国军高参亲手交出进攻密令，北平暗夜里的无声抉择    1946年9月的一个晚上，北平第十一战区司令部附近有盏煤油灯忽明忽暗，谢士炎换上便衣，腰间别了把手枪，走到外事处副处长陈融生家门口，他没有敲门，直接推门进去，用枪口顶住陈融生的胸口，压低声音说，我知道你是地下党，你得帮我把东西送出去。    Christie's has canceled the second auction of jewels belonging to an Austrian billionaire, whose German husband made his fortune under the Nazis, following "intense scrutiny," it said Friday. The auction house held a first controversial online and in-person sale in Geneva of part of the large stash of more than 700 jewels in May, and had been scheduled to hold a second round in November.But in a statement it said "Christie's has taken the decision not to proceed with further sales of property from the Estate of Heidi Horten."

             

With just a portion of the collection sold, the auction eclipsed previous records set by Christie's in sales of properties that belonged to actress Elizabeth Taylor in 2011 and the "Maharajas and Mughal Magnificence" collection in 2019, both of which exceeded $100 million.      Hopes had been high for similar results from the second round. But following an initial report in the New York Times, Christie's sent a statement to AFP confirming that it had canceled the second round, acknowledging that "the sale of the Heidi Horten jewelry collection has provoked intense scrutiny.""The reaction to it has deeply affected us and many others, and we will continue to reflect on it," it said.

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A large number of Jewish groups had asked Christie's to halt the initial Horten sale in May, describing it as "indecent" and demanding that the auction house do more to determine how much of it came from victims of the Nazis.                 The extraordinary collection belonged to Horten, who died last year aged 81 with a fortune of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes.A report published in January 2022 by historians commissioned by the Horten Foundation said Horten's husband Helmut Horten, who died in Switzerland in 1987, had been a member of the Nazi party before being expelled.

    

                                                     

    

In 1936, three years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Horten took over textile company Alsberg, based in the western city of Duisburg, after its Jewish owners fled. He later took over several other shops that had belonged to Jewish owners before the war.Christie's in May defended its decision to go ahead with the sale, with Christie's international head of jewelry Rahul Kadakia telling AFP that all of the proceeds would go towards charities.                      "Christie's separately is making a significant donation towards Holocaust research and education," he said at the time, stressing that the "proceeds of the sale is going to do good."                                 

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。    谢士炎不是临时起意，他1912年在湖南衡山谢家出生，伯父是国民党中将参谋长，家里有九人进过军校，六人当上高级将领，他自己十五岁跟着伯父去南京，考进工程兵学校，后来进了陆军大学第十四期，英语、法语、俄语都会说，1938年一毕业就上了抗战前线，1942年衢州保卫战，他带不到一千人，顶住十倍日军进攻，打死了对方一个旅团长，消灭敌人两千，当时第三战区都称他“能打仗的儒将”。        仗打完了，人却慢慢变了，1945年日本投降后，他到芷江参加受降仪式，后来调到武汉负责接收日伪留下的资产，他看到军统的人抢银元、吞物资，就当场抓了几个贪官，结果人家反过来诬陷他“贪污受贿”，把他关了三个月，到1946年初放出来时，原来的职位没了，钱也没了，连吃饭都成了问题，这件事让他开始想，自己当初拼命打日本人，到底是为了什么。    后来孙连仲请他去北平，担任第十一战区军务处的少将处长，在那里他认识了陈融生，陈融生表面是国民党外事处副处长，其实是中共在北平的情报小组成员，两人见面时没多说什么，陈融生只是随手递给他几本书，有《新民主主义论》和《论持久战》，谢士炎回家后悄悄读完，越看越觉得书里说得对，书中提到人民战争、反腐败和中国未来方向，比国民党内部天天争权夺利、拿回扣要强得多。

B |         九月那次秘密军事会议上，国民党决定攻打张家口，会上把兵力部署、行动时间和路线安排都摆了出来，谢士炎作为参会人员记下了整个计划，会后他没回住处，直接去了陈融生家里，他没强迫陈融生答应什么，也没提条件，只是说请你帮个忙，就把那份写着具体坐标和时间的作战计划递了过去。    这件事发生的时候，《双十协定》还没被撕毁，不过蒋介石已经在计划三个月内解决中共问题，张家口是华北的关键位置，占领它就能切断晋察冀根据地之间的联系，谢士炎交出的情报让解放军提前调整了部署，打乱了国军的进攻节奏，他不是被人策反的，也没人拉他加入，是他自己看透了局势，胜利之后国民党没有变好反而烂得更快了，1945年他还在前线作战，1946年就看见军统在武汉抢老百姓的米袋子，他曾相信过体制也尝试遵守规矩，最后发现规矩本身是用来欺负老实人的，1946年11月，北平这边突然开始抓人，谢士炎、陈融生等五人先后被捕，他们没有喊口号也没写遗书，只在审讯记录里留下了一句简单的话，我做的事我自己承认。    那天晚上他手里的枪没有响，纸上的字却比子弹还要重。    这个人本来没打算出头，只是实在看不下去眼前发生的事，心里觉得不能继续装作不知道了。返回，查看更多。

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